John Pilger: The US is Escalating War Tensions With China in Desperate Bid to Maintain Global Power

In an interview with Finian Cunningham, internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says America is driving war against China, not out of strength but rather from a fear of losing its erstwhile sole superpower position. The driving forces are multiple: the United States' sense of itself as a diminishing global power; the destructive militarism of US capitalism and its “Merchants of Death“; deep-seated historical racism towards China; and an anachronistic American notion of “divine right“ to dominate the rest of the globe. China is not an intrinsic military threat to the US. It certainly is a challenge to the United States' so-called “rules-based order“ – which is a euphemism for American domination. Beijing has continually appealed to the US to embrace multipolar respect and abandon its Cold War mentality. Yet Washington persists in asserting that China is its biggest long-term threat. The real “threat“ is that China